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Tuesday, 31 December 2013

The Page Unwritten

I love this
about history: the stories; oh, best of all the stories: from conqueror to waif: from tectonic shifts
of geology to the hatching of a rare egg: the feeling of otherness that one can
glean from trying to understand another time, another place; the awareness of
basic human experiences like love and financial insecurity, the shock of
mortality, the inspiration of courage shown.

Only… if it were to gently rock to a stop... not a frozen in its tracks stop…
perhaps a boat at a mooring on a fine weather day…

The focus, then, would it fall on the oddities of nature?

What if 2013 were most memorable for unusual cloud formation, for admirable sky
colouration, for the best spider webs on record?

Do think of it, for sometimes one has had enough of the debris, of the way that
people can be scattered, hurt, abandoned, lost, misdirected, miss the point,
forget that all this has happened before in different clothes and make up and
the outcome was not happy, it never will be.

Mankind has a drive to press an indelible print: part of what makes us lovely,
part of what makes us disgusting. What is really worth your ink? A new year is
a new page, unwritten.